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Needles, Pins AMI Fish Hooks.

According to the most recent estimate,
the present production Of needles in
Redditch, England, is not less than So.
100000 per week, and as may be inferred
from this enormous aggregate, machinery
has been brought to bear upon the trade
in a most extensive degree, and with
marked success. The pointing of the
needles, one of the most delicate of all
the operations, is now almost exclusively
done by machinery, and go is the cutting,
skimming, stamping, cycling, tempering,
counting, heading and failing, blueing,
Furnishing, finishing, asserting andstick.
ing. New and improved machines for
all these processes have been successfully
introduced during the last twenty years
or so, and unlike the experience of other
trades, the machine work about needles
is not only cheaper but better.
The latest novelty, and one which is
pronounced success, is the ''grooving," !"
machine for making sewing machine
needles, the old stamping process being
thereby superseded. Work done by the
"grooving" machine is better and truer,
besides being more economical. The
old process of ether gelding has been
almost entirely superseded by the newer
and improved method of electro gelding,
Redditch is becoming a rival of Birming.
ham in the manufacture of pins, the
ordinary common household pin being
supplemented by shawl and scarf pins.
with glass and steel heads. About two
tons weight of pins of all sorts are made
in Redditch weekly. According to the
latest phase which ingenious enterprise
has taken in this trade, the production
ought to increase by "leaps and bounds, u
for an attempt is being made to 80 recon
struct the emachines that they may pro-
duce two pins at time instead of one
Redditch produces every week an average
of 100000 fish hooks of all descrip'
tions, from that required by the angler
of minnows in the streamlet to thai
adapted for pike and salmon fishermen
Machinery is very largely used in the
manufacture of fish hooks, and in CON
nection with the smaller class of sea
hooks, electro timing is being extensive
ly adopted. Fishing rods, floats and
swivels now constitute important branch
es of Redditch industry, aud consider
able trade is growing up in the produc
ton of artificial flies, which are exclu
siyely hand made.-American Analysis.
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Why the Knights Of Labor Oppose In.
diligence In Int0xlcants.

We advocate temperance because We
believe in the principle that uuderlies all
progress from lower to higher plane
of existence-the integrity of the indi.
vidual.
No one can be ignorant of the close
union that exists between the physical,
the mental and the moral constitution.
No one can be ignorant of the degrading
influence of intoxicants upon the physi.
cal and moral man.
The effect of beer and liquor is to pro.
duce disease of the nerve centres. II
these become impaired they convey false
and wrong impressions to the brain as
we'll as paralyze the motor or moving
agents of the body. In short, they tell
lies. The truth is not in them. They
convey false intelligence and deatroy
reason. The drunkard believes his de.
voted wife his enemy and beats her to
death. The love he bears his child Is
turned to hate, and he turns her naked
into the winter storm.
Iotoxicants gradually undermine the
moral integrity and leave the victim
open to every temptation. Once the
barrier is weakened that guards the path
of truth and rectitude the man falls an
easy prey to vice.
The man who lives temperate, honest
life lends his influence to build up a,
higher degree Of civilization, and te'
create that centre from which radiatea
those virtues which lend charm to e1-
istence, happy home.
These are few of the reasons why wa
advocate temperance. and no one can
look abroad without viewing the crime,
degradation, murder, theft, that prevail
in the precincts of saloons. We want te,
see every member Of the knights oil
Labor living ont the best, the truest
thoughts and impulses God bestowed.
Journal of United Labor.
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Some Facts for Vegetarians.

A vegetable:diet is4oO. .or:5oo per cent.
cheaper than the same amount of food
derived from the flesh of animals.
The animals which for power of en-.
durance and rapidity of motion are val.
ued for our service derive the whole Of
their strength and nutriment from the
vegetable kingdom-such as The horse.
the elephant, the camel.
The physical condition of many flesh
eaters shows that the blood itself is load.
ed with impurities and is in state of
decomposition, and that peraons whose
blood is in this impure state are liable,
on very slight exposure, ETC., to be attack.
ed with dangerous illness. That this
condition is caused by esh.eatipg is
shown from the fact that it is quickly
changed by the adoption of vegetable
diet.
The flesh. eating habits Of the so-called
civilized world render necessary the set.
ting apart of whole class of men for the
performance of the degrading and bru.
talizing Office Of slaughtering animals for
food.
Were it not for the large quantities of
vegetables consumed by flesh eaters
disease would ensue in every case. Veg.
etables supply the salts of the blood.
The peasantry of all nations abstain
from animal food-wbolly or in part
from necessity. Their vigor is greater
than that of any other class in every
country.
Meat is the most costly of all foods, and
among civilized races the struggle for
life RACES to 80 fearful an extent that
human beings shorten life by the effort
they make to save it.
The average age of man should be q
century,. The majority Of human beings
die before they are half as old. The
longest.lived are those. who feed on ce.
reals.
Vegetarian diet, by contributing to the
physical health Of man, improves likewise
his moral condition, besides conducting
in no small degree to the healthy devel.
opment of the intellectual faculties, since
it must naturally follow that by rendering
the instrument clear and pure, the acts
of life will be materially elevated, also
being identified with that which is clear
and pure.
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Profitable .PolIteness.

The Boston Traveller, in commenting
on the prevalence OF rudeness, tells the
following incident that happened several
years ago:
There was a plainly dressed elderly
lady, who was frequent customer at the
then leading dry goods house i'm Boston.
No one in the store knew her evenly
name. ALI the clerks but one avoided
her, and gave their attention to, those
who we're better dressed and more pre-.
tentious. The exception was q young
man who had conscientious regard for
duty and system. He never left another
customer to wait on she lady, but when
at liberty, he waited on her with as much
attention as if she had been princess.
This continued year or two, till the
young man came Of age. One morning
the lady approached the young man,
when the following conversation took
place:
"Young man, do you wish to go into
business for yourself?"
"Yes, ma'am," he replied, "but I have
neither money, credit, nor friends"
"Well," continued the lady, "you go
and select good situation, ask what the
rent is and report to me-" handing the
young man her address.
The young man found splendid loca.
ton aud good store; but the landlord
required security which he could not
give. Mindful of the lady's request he
forthwith went to her and reported. =.
"Wsll," she replied. "You 60 and
tell Mr.. that 1 will bs re-.
sponsible."
He went; the landlord or agent was
surprised, but the bargain was closed.
The next day the lady called to ascer-
tain the result. The young man told her,
and added:
"What am to do for goods9 No one
will trust me-"
"You may go and see Mr..
and Mr.. Mr.--. and Mr.. ---
and tell them to call on me-"
He did so, and his store was soon
stocked with the best in the market.
There are many in this city who remem-
bered the circumstances and the man.
He died many years ago and left a for.
tune of s3,OOO,OOO dollars. So much for
politeness; 30 much for treating ones
elders With the Difference due to age, in
whatever garb they are clothed.
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Congressman Scott of Erie is said
by the Burlington IN. J.) Gazette to be
willing to bet $4,000, that President
Cleveland will be nominated without
serious opposition and re.eleced at the
proper time. Furthermore, he is said to
be willing to wager similar sum that the
Republican party will make no presideu.
tial nominations after 1892. The theory
upon which the last wager is to be laid IL
that another defeat will disiptegrate tteI
Republican party, which Charles 8,
Wolfe insists is held together now only
by the hope of q victory In 1883.
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this that he call his attention to it before
he read the paper, as the Northern
audience was supposed to be critical. 1t
was done, and hearty thanks were re-
ceiyed for the we'll meant suggestion
The time came, and the speaker went
smoothly on till he came to the fatal
word. He seemed about to pronounce it
correctly, but old habit prevailed; he
hesitated a moment, seemed about to
stumble, then brought it ont in the old
way, inquiry.
And that reminds US of another Incl
dent of the same occasion. A distin-
guished Georgian was reading q paper,
and having occasion to use the word
acumen several times regularly said
acumen. Another Georgian sitting by
our side reached over to South Caroli-
pian on the seat in front and said with
unconscious irony, "What acumen that
man has"
Blu. to return to the subject. Ifpublic
speakers would only remember that ally
is accented on the last syllable, harassing
on the first; that most is never proper
substitute for almost; that there is no
such word as unthoughtedly; that lily is
obsolete; that like, for as or as ii, is in.
correct; that aggravate never means
provoke that came and gave are the
preterites of come and give; that in the
common phrase son yesterday" on is not
only unnecessary, but wrong; that expect
refers to the future aud besides ought
not to be made to do duty for suspect; {;
that mighty should not now be used for
very, however it may have been in Mil
toms time-if these, and such things,
were remembered, how much better it
would be for our good old mother tongue.
It was not bad7lesson that awell known
Pastor gave his people some time ago
when he said, in making an announce.
ment from the pulpit, 4T expect-no, |
mean to say I suapect, that, etc"
1t would be we'll if it we're remembered
that when the preacher refers to Mrs.
Jones, he should say not Mistress, but
Misses Jones. Many people imagine
that they must pronounce the word in
full as written, if they would be strictly
correct, but there is no authority for
such pronunciation. 1t were we'll, too,
if everybody could have heard the en-
phatic way in which DR.. Summers used
to say to the students, eve raise pigs,
sir, not people"
Perhaps some one might say the Nash.
vile pulpit does not make such mistakes
Alb, but we have seen little note book,
with names, ETC., daily recorded, which
tells a different tale. We shall close
with four sentences heard from the lips
of prominent preachers: "We owe a
heap to those who give us good spiritual
songs" "I'd heap sight rather do any
thing than take up collection" i" Glow
much exercise does a fellow get settin'
around on the benches looking at
eighteen other fellows playing base
ball ?" II was laying under the bench
two weeks before got religion"
It is not meant that such things are
common in our pulpits, but they ought
not to be possible.-C S. F., IN Southern
Christian Advocate.
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Ground Down.

An old negro who had been engaged
to do work ON farm went to the pro.
prietor the day after be was employed and
said
"Boss, skuze me, sab, but dare er few
p'nts dat furgot to ak yer yist'day. All
ober dis heah country, sab, Use ssid tor
be de bes' ham OH er farm, and I wants
ter hab er little understandin' wid yer.
Dar's some thins, sab, dat yer mustn't
'spect me ter do"
"What are they ?"
"Well, sab, yer mustn't 'spect me ter
pull fodder"
can right"
"Nur set out cabbage plants"
"Well, as you are regarded as the
most trustworthy man in the neighbor.
hood I will relieve you from such du.
ties"
"Thank yer, sab, but wait er mint.
Nur turn de grind stone."
"Well."
"Nur draw water fur de steers"
go ahead"
"Yes, sab, tbankee. Nur sit up befo'
day, nur chop stove wood, nur hep kill
hogs, nur plow, nur hoe cotton, nur-"
"Hold on"
"Wall, sab"
"What do you propose 10 do 2"
"W'y, work on de farm, sab, but I
mustn't clean out de we'll, nur feed de
stock, nur cut wheat, nur-"
"Hold on. I don't want you." x
"Why so, sahp
"Because you don't want TO work."
"Dar yer go, jes' like all de res O. de
white folks. Say dat nigger doan wan
ter work jest bercase he doan wanter kill
hisse'f. Long ez he jis gifts right down
an humps hisse'f ter death da doan say
er word, but soop ez he says dat he amt
willin' ter die, wy den de- comes roun'
making er big mouf er bout it."
"Well," said the proprietor after
moments reflection, "as I need man to
see that the other hands do their work
we'll, You may 60 ahead"
"Bleeged ter yer, sab. deed 1 is. I'll
make yer de bes' oberseer yer eber seed
case rs allus got de intrust O. de- prieter
at heart. Hole on, boss jes er nudder
word, please sah."
swell, what is it?"
"What sorter whisky does yer drinkp
II don't drink any,"
"But what kline is yer goin' ter turn
me loose er muug?"
"None."
"Aiu't gwineter hab er barr'l wid er tin
cup on it?"
"Of course not"
"Den, sab, we kant trade. White
folks specks er nigger ter work his life
er way widout gittin' any freshments.
No use'n talkin',' sab (; dar amt no finit.
ness twixt u.s."
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"A man who Was convicted at the
last term of Columbus IN. C.) County
Court for slandering an innocent woman
plead drunkenness as an excuse, but
Judge Clark sentenced him all the same
to the payment of $1,000 dne and also
to months imprisonment. This is q
sample of North Carolina justice worthy
of widespread imitation in Courts called
on to protect women from slanderous
tongues.
Virtue requires no other recompense
than the tribute of self-approbation and
respect.
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college in the South as an authority moi
| to be questioned. I say to my children
"There is no taint upon your ancestry
There was no curse in slavery. Harriet
| Beecher Stowe wrote romantic lie and
the whole fanatical crew revelled in
slavery-but slavery had its day and
served its purpose. It's time was out
let it be out. We are glad of it if it vas
the will of Providence, but be careful
lest worse evil befall us. Let us fortify
and entrench against the love Of money,
which the Bible tells US is the root of all
evil"
We want no more of slavery. 1t had
its mission, not its sin nor its curse, but
its mission both to white and to black,
and we are content.
Here are a whole lot of fools who strut
around on speculatofs' money and say
let the old South alone, she's dead dog
and stinks. I heard bloated bondhold.
er say that not long ago, and in the same
conversation he Dragged about a painting
he bought at stuart's sale, and aaid it
was 300 years old. We will talk about
the old South just as much as We please,
and no man shall make US afraid. We
love old things, anyhow. They are the
best. The poet says:
II love 1T, 1 love It, and who shall dare
To chide me for loving that old arm chair"
There is Old Hundred and Old Lang
Syue, and here aze the old trees and the
old landmarks and the old men and old
women with good old honest habits and
limited desires, who indulge in no folly
and banker after no big thing, but live
calm and serene and covet nothing but
the happiness of their children. see
that Mr.. Barnett has presented shipgle
that is hundred years old to the agri.
cultural department. expect it pad
died his grandfather, and is therefore q
sacred relic of the old South. The new
South don't paddle much. But the
school teachers do thrash around some
in these parts. Carl was telling me to-
day how the teacher whipped one of the
boys yesterday. II tell you what, papa,
that boy got forty.nine licks, for ]
counted 'em, aud he never blinked no,
winked, and sell down laughing" "Why,
he is tough one," said I, she must
have hide like an alligator" mo
sir" said Carl, "but he had on big,
loose jeans coat, and he held back bis
shoulders so that the coat never touched
him, and nothing got whipping but the
coat" Smart boys these days, and
shity. The old Sonth may whip, but
the new South knows how to dodge.
BILL ARP.
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ENGLISH AS SHE Is SPOKEN.

Suppose that a young man or a young
woman, or boy or girl, should become
thoroughly in earnest in the effort to
aearn how oispeak the English language
correctly, what must such an one dof
,"Use the dictionary" says one, snd that
lis good advice. Next to having father
and mother who speak correctly, con,
.stant use of the dictionary may be made
the best means Of acquiring correct
speech. But to talk according TO the
dictionary and the grammar is not neces.
.sarily to talk good English. We have
all known persons who, not having in
herited good speech, yet gota a marvellous
degree Of correctness in the use of the
mother tongue from the dictionary and
the grammar; but their conversation
smacked always of the dictionary and
the grammar, and was, if not offensive
to people of real culture, at least not
pleasant to them. 1t was very apt to
partake of the inflated, the turgid, the
pompous. The best means left to most
ofus sforSiearning what is best in pro-
nuneiation, in the choice of words, in
general style, is to observe carefully the
language of correct speakers. By this
means one might best correct inherited
defects, might even be saved from any
undue influence of dictionary and
grammar. But where can these correct
speakers be found? That is a hard
question, and, without attempting to an.
swer it, we shall have few words to say
with regard especially to what those
reverend gentlemen contribute to this
end whose duty it is on this particular
day to instruct us. Have We not a right
to expect these public teachers to give us
doctrine that shall ediy in language
that shall instruct? We knew one
preacher once, in another State, who
said that he considered it part Of the
teaching function Of the Pastor to be
careful of his grammar and pronuncia.
ton, as we'll as of his doctrine. May
his kind multiply! But unfortunately
that Pastor lost his church because he
. did not sdraw" as we'll as some of his
progressive" people thought he should.
But are the preachers generally as
careful as they should be of the language
they use before their congregations, to
three. fourths Of whom they are, perhaps,
the highest accessible authority on most
matters3 Our experience would not
justify us in saying, Yes. We sat not
long ago under the voice of one of the
most highly cultivated preachers in
Nashville and remember that in this one
sermon the speaker said shadder for
shadow, Emeader for meadow, sorrer, for
sorrow, idea for idea, pore for poor, yore
for your, wy for why and the balance
for the rest.
IF preachers and all others who talk
in public land in priyate) would only
remember to accent the second syllable
in idea, ideal, idealism, inquiry, acumen,
enervate, coincidence, ETC., how pleasant
it would be to sensitive ears. We never
hear inquiry accented on the first syllable
without remembering this little incident:
A very distinguished Southern gentleman
was to read paper before the National
Teachers Association. One of the
friends of this gentleman had observed
/. that he always pronounced the word
Enquiry, and suggested to the writer of
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Hoist by His Own Petard.

RE1Dsv1LIE, N. c., April 24.-The
town was startled from its usual Sabbath
serenity this afternoon by loud explo-
sion anu cries for help. Mr.. Willie
Garner, popular young citizen, last
night set an old army gun with wires in
his hen house to shoot thieves. This
morning he forgot to lower the hammer,
and walking about the lot this evening,
thoughtlessly entered the hen house
stepped on the wire and shot himself in
the left foot. The doctors think they can
save part of the leg. Mr.. Garner has an
interesting family, and WAS manager in
Penn's tobacco factory.
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Killed by o Calf.

MONTICELLO, ILL, April H.-Near
Mansfield, in this county, yesterday af.
ternoon J. H. Burns, wealthy farmer,
was painting the shingles OF his new
barn, which three men were mailing
down. All four were standing on a
bracket scafold twenty feet from the
ground. A calf running at large with a
rope around its neck managed to wrap
the rope several times around one of the
posts used to support the scafolding,
jerked the post away and the men fell
upon loose rocks scattered below. Burns
was instantly killed and one of his men
named Newton was fatally hurt, but the
other two escaped serious injury.
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: Intelligence from the Holy La,

= Intelligence from the Holy Land
informs us that in Jerusalem, in the
streets once trod by King David, may
be heard the shrill whistle of the steam
engine. The city has, in the last twenty.
five years, doubled its number of build
ings and in other respects keeps pace
with the great cities Of the modern world.
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Though laboring under considerable
disadvantages, Miss Lou Drake has done
a good work at Ebenezer. Talk sbont
swoman teachers?" Why Miss Lou
manages the boys of that school admira-
BIZ we'll. Some male teachers have had
trouble there.
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We are glad so know that Mr.. E. B.
vickery, well known to the teachers OF
this county and highly appreciated by
the patrons of New Prospect School, is
doing we'll at the North Georgia Military
School, Dahlonegs, Ga. Mr.. Yickery
iknowsssiisiow ! to apply himself whether as
a teasiisr ora pupil After he shall
have fiaished his course of studies, An.
deison County would be glad to have
him numbered again among her teachers.
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May 10th, the anniversary of Stone
wall Jackson's death, will be observed by
Miss Nora Hubbard's School. Speeches
suitable to the occasion will be delivered
by the little boys, Col. L. Campbell will
speak on Camp-life, and two other per-
sons will, talk on. Jackson and Lee.
There will be songs, waud.drill, calls
themes, etc., by the girls. After these
exercises, the school will go to both
cemeteries and decorate the graves of all
the old soldiers buried there.
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One trustee, having read our recent
article on the duties of trustees, volnnta-
srily acknowledges his past derelictions
and Gays he intends to turn over leaf
and move up things iu the future.
Trustees can greatly assist in the man.
aeement of the free school if they will.
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:'7F['EIA6'H]ERs'GoLUM I 3
J. q. cL1NKscALEs, EDITOR.
! Mr. w. h. Haynie is now teaching
at New Prospect.

ri Miss Mamie Harkness is teaching in
Greenyille now. We regret to lose Miss
Mamie, but rejoice to know that her
place at Meals Creek is filled by Miss
Annie Emerson, who has already shown
herself proficient as teacher.